Sea Horses By Lily

It is hard to believe that the sea horse is a fish, but it is. They can change their color to hide from their enemies. Sea horses are very shy and peaceful creatures.

A Sea horse has a long tail and a long nose. It has a big tummy and its head looks like a horses head. A seahorse has a see through fin. The male seahorse has pouch so the female and male can have babies. They dance side by side and then the female pushes the eggs into the pouch. And when the babies are ready they push themselves out and they hang on to what ever is near them.

A seahorse eats tiny animals called plankton and zooplankton. It catches them by opening its mouth and closing its mouth.

A seahorse lives in the coral reef and in the shallow waters of the reef. They feed almost all the day! They have small black eyes and are very sensitive and can get hurt very easily.

Sea horses are very cute and small.


Source: Clinging Sea Horses By Judith Jango-Cohen
Coral reefs By Barbara Taylor

Octopus By Yugo

Everyone knows about octopus, especially that they have eight arms. There is so much more to learn about these amazing creatures.

Some octopuses are big and some have eight arms called tentacles. Octopuses have soft bodies and no backbone. They have big heads, large brain and large eyes, they have good eyesight. And there are over 150 kinds of octopus.









Octopuses eat clams, abalone, crabs, and fish. They also like to eat snails, oysters, squids, starfish, sea cucumbers, shrimp and fish eggs.

Octopuses live in oceans all over the world. They do not live in freshwater. They can be found on the sea floor, in reefs and hiding in rocks. An octopus’s home is called a den and they like being in hidden caves and in sunken ships.

An octopus is an interesting animal that uses camouflage to protect itself. There are many different sorts of octopus all over the world.

Source: Octopus By Ron Hirschi
Octopuses By Jenny Markert

Turtles By Yannick

Turtles are reptiles and can lay 60 white eggs. Leather back turtles can swim further than other turtles. They are the largest turtles in the whole world.

Turtles have a hard shell and are usually green. They can live up to 200 years. They can often have white and yellow spots.

A turtle’s favorite food is jellyfish. It can eat twice its own body weight of jellyfish in one day.

Turtles live in the coral reef and shallow water some times. They never live in deep water.

Turtles are amazing creatures and they can go inside their shell if they are frightened for protection.

Coral Polyps By Reagan

Coral reefs are made up of millions of tiny animals called polyps. Reefs are often called the rain forests of the sea.

Polyps look like rocks but are animals. Some of the most colorful things on earth are found in the coral reefs.

Coral polyps have soft bodies and no eyes. They have long tentacles on their back. Coral comes in lots of different colors. They’re both hard and soft bodies.

Corals eat small fish and shrimp at night. Polyps eat little fish that float by. They also eat algae and plankton.

Most corals live in shallow water. Corals are some of the most amazing things. They come out at night and sleep in the day. So don’t drop your anchor when you’re there. Don’t touch the coral reef because if you do you might be killing these small animals.

Source:Aquatic Life of the World

Extreme Coral

Coral Polyps By Rashad

Coral reefs are made up of millions of tiny animals called polyps. Reefs have over two-thirds of the world’s fish. Polyps live together in colonies located in warm oceans.

A coral polyp can be soft and tube shaped. They has many tentacles, and are small like a jellyfish. Of the 5,000 different kinds, some are hard and some are soft.

Corals eat small animals that float by. To catch them, they sting them. They eat at night, eating dead fish and shrimp. Also, they eat plankton.

Polyps live together in colonies and oceans all around world. They live in shallow waters around islands. You can find coral reefs at the equator.

Coral polyps are important because many types of fish need to coral reefs to live in. We need to help save the coral polyps so we can help save the reef.


Sources:
Corals – Lola M. Schaefer
Aquatic Life

Octopus By Nino

An octopus is meant to be creepy, slimy and horrible, but they would rather sneak away than attack somebody. The octopus sprays black ink if it feels threatened.

An octopuses head is very small and has a bag like body. The eyes can look in all directions with out turning the head. Its eight arms are attached to its head.

An octopus eats fish by grabbing fish by its tentacles. It also eats crabs, scallops, and abalone. A giant octopus can even eat birds. They can eat tuna, small fish, barracuda, salmon, conch snails, oysters, clams and hard shelled crabs.

An octopus lives in a hole in both in shallow and deep water in the Pacific Oceans. A good spot for them to live is where they can hide. Their home is called a den.

Sources:
Octopus by Ron Hirshi

Tentacles by James Martin
An octopus was thought of as one of the most scary sea monsters. They say that it could even drown a ship. Today many are are not really dangerous.

Sharks By Manuela

Sharks are a very ancient groups of animals. The first sharks lived more than 400 million years ago, that is 200 million years before the first dinosaur walked the earth.

The hammerhead shark eats fish, stingrays, crabs, and squid. They hunt on the sea floor to find stingrays that are living on the floor. Mako sharks eat tuna, mackerel and sword fish.

Mako sharks have short fins and long fins. Short fin makos have shorter pectoral fins than long fin makos. These fins help sharks steer like an airplane.

A shark lives in oceans, coral reefs and seas. The tiger shark is able to live in many different marine habitats, but they really like murky waters in coastal areas.

I think sharks have the right to eat humans because we also eat them. We are also in their homes when they
attack us.

Source: Mako Sharks
Shark Attack
Florida Natural Museum